Week in Apple: kickbacks, SQL attacks, and Facebook

This last week was a little quiet for Apple news, but we still got some juicy …

It was a quiet week in Apple news, but the company still got snagged in some SQL injection attacks, a former manager was charged with taking kickbacks, and Facebook added check-ins to its iPhone app. Read on for the bite-sized roundup:

Newly detected SQL injection attack snags Apple in wide net: Hackers are attempting to hide SQL injection commands by disguising the data as a string of numbers. The latest technique has been used to compromise as many as a million webpages in the early part of this month alone, including a few of Apple's.

Facebook adds geolocation, check-ins to iPhone and Web apps: Facebook has finally announced its long-rumored location feature, called "Places." Available to iPhone users and mobile devices that have HTML5 and geolocation capabilities, the feature is similar to other location-based services, but privacy groups still have complaints.

Apple may be looking to lock out unauthorized iOS users: Apple has applied for a patent on a method to protect mobile devices from unauthorized access, including automatic data wiping, alerting the device owner of trouble, and photographing and geolocating an "unauthorized" user.